Issue #636 - Sunday, June 30, 2024 Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue you'll discover... - (New!) This guide shows you how to master the flowering stage - Learn the basics, plus the 5 most important key factors that lead to a magnificent harvest!
- Week-by-week flowering timeline -
For those who want to go deeper, see exactly what to expect each week during the budding phase, with pictures!
- Lemon-scented strains may be more relaxing - New research shows citrus-smelling d-limonene may reduce anxiety for some people. Check out the strains we grew that tested extra high in
d-limonene!
- A high d-Limonene strain is taking over this grow room! Learn about the difference between "fast" and "auto-flowering" strains, then check out a gorgeous manifolded Gorilla Cookies Fast garden from our reader Aaron!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers." -May Sarton It’s weed time! If you’re growing cannabis plants, then the flowering stage is when your weed comes in. But what do you need to know to make sure your flowering stage ends in a magnificent harvest? Find out today! Buds are the dried flowers of a female cannabis plant. An annual plant like cannabis normally grows from seed to maturity and dies over the course of one year. Like many flowering plants, there are 2 main phases of life for marijuana plants: the Vegetative Stage and the Flowering Stage. Vegetative Stage First, a cannabis plant goes through a phase of vegetative growth, producing lots of stems and leaves. In this
stage, the plant only gets bigger and does not make any flowers or buds. We recently covered the cannabis vegetative stage in depth. In the Vegetative Stage, cannabis plants only grow stems and leaves. No buds. Flowering Stage Next, when a cannabis plant “senses” that the year is coming to a close, the plant completely switches gears from growing bigger/taller and begins a flowering phase of growth. During this flowering stage, the main goal of the plant is to produce flowers, which are the organs needed for sexual reproduction. The
Flowering Stage is when your cannabis plants grow buds (aka “weed” “marijuana” or “sinsemilla”). At first the flowers looks like white hairs. But they soon develop into familiar buds. When buds reach peak potency, the branches are cut and hung upside down to dry. Dried buds are jarred, and soon are ready to be smoked! Nothing is more satisfying than smoking your own homegrown weed, like this Platinum Cookies. Now that you understand the basics, let’s cover everything you need to know about the Flowering Stage of cannabis growth, including: - What to Expect During the Flowering Stage
- Flowering Light Schedule: When to Start 12/12 Photoperiods
- 5 Keys to Flowering Stage Success
Click here to keep reading and master the flowering stage! Week-by-Week Timeline of the Cannabis Flowering StageFrom 12/12 to Harvest, with Pictures! We covered the flowering stage today, but do you want to dig a little deeper, and see exactly what to expect from 12/12 to harvest, with pictures? If so, you're in luck, because we've got exactly that! Complete Flowering Stage Timeline - Week 1-3 – Transition to Flowering
- Week 3-4 – Budlets Form
- Week 4-6 – Buds Start Fattening Up
- Week 6-8 – Buds Ripen, Pistils Darken – some strains spend longer in this stage
- Week 8+ – Flowering
Ends, Final Flush, Harvest
Example of a bud that's 5 weeks from 12/12. Want to Give Back to the Growing Community?Ever wondered how you could help overgrow the world? Show off your growing skills and help others produce bigger, more potent buds by sharing your experiences, pictures, and lessons learned. We want to hear from you! The best way to get quality weed into the hands of those in need is by sharing
knowledge and making it easier for everyone to grow great weed themselves. (or reply to this email) P.S. Don't forget to share your
grow tactics, strains, grow light or setup, and other information about the pictures you submit! This makes your pictures even more interesting and useful for other growers!
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This is my Fast Buds Gorilla Cookies fast flowering plant gone wild!!! Plant Training: Mainlined to create 16 colas veged for 8 weeks. Age and Size: Currently in week 6 of flower. She is 3.5 foot
tall with 50cm to 60 cm colas! Run out of room! Luckily I was able to raise 1 of the inner lights. Setup: Upgraded my mars hydro FC-E4800 from 480 watts to 730 watts by moving the 2 inner light bars on the FC-E towards outer edge, enabling me to fit Vipar Spectra XS1500 (150 watts) & Vipar Spectra p600 (100watts) into middle of the FC-E , 730 watts total. ~Aaron
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This is an awesome way to get full light to all your buds even with a taller plant! ~Nebula Hey Aaron, It's a lovely coincidence you sent these in this week, as Gorilla Cookies is a strain high in d-Limonene! Yours seem to be absolutely thriving under those Mars Hydro LEDs! Just a note for our readers, a
"Fast" strain like Gorilla Cookies Fast (sometimes listed as Gorilla Cookies "FF" for Fast Flowering) is not an auto-flowering strain, but actually a photoperiod strain that has been bred specifically to go through the flowering stage
fast while still achieving good yields and potency. This particular strain is ready to harvest around 7-8 weeks from initiating 12/12, so since you're in week 6, you've only got a few weeks left at most! Can't wait to see harvest pictures! Nebula Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to the vegetative stage: - Examples of Effective Cannabis Grow Setups - This page
will lead you to some setup shopping lists for a handful of the most popular styles of growing cannabis. If you haven't gotten your grow equipment yet, start here!
- How Long Does It Take to Grow Weed Indoors? [2 to 4+ months] - “If I start growing cannabis today, how long until I’m holding my homegrown weed?” This is
one of the most common questions we receive from curious soon-to-be indoor cannabis growers. How long does it really take to grow weed? Find out today!
- How to Grow 3 oz of Cannabis in a $300 Mini LED Grow Kit - Ready to start growing weed for only
$300? This tutorial uses the HLG 65 V2 4000k LED in a 3′ tall mini grow tent to produce up to 3 oz of top-shelf cannabis per harvest (at 65W it’s almost free to run this marijuana grow light after set up).
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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